Details of the budget were unavailable Thursday. Chairman of the Board Eric Weller says it will be available online when the city Housing Authority's website is operating again. The authority's website has been down for months, but board member Ken Ivins Jr. said it would be back up next week.

But the Housing Authority's response to a compliance and communication letter sent by the City Council in May was not addressed at the meeting.

Weller said he has forwarded draft copies of his response to the letter to the members of the board and requested the members' input. He said Thursday he will be forwarding it to the council following the meeting but would not publicize it.

"As a matter of courtesy, I don't want it in the papers until the City Council has received it," he said, adding council members could release the letter if they so desired.

The salary cap for public housing authority employees laid out by the federal government was also not discussed during the authority's Thursday meeting.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development issued a report recently outlining salary caps that will be placed on public housing authorities receiving federal money. The cap for public housing authorities the size of the Saratoga Springs Housing Authority is $125,926.

Saratoga Springs Housing Authority Executive Director Ed Spychalski was paid about $152,000 in 2011, though his base salary is closer to $145,000.

Though Weller said Wednesday that the issue would likely be discussed at the Thursday meeting, it was not brought up.

City Housing Authority board member Al Callucci said he does not believe the salary caps from HUD have been finalized.

"That is only a recommendation," he said. "There is nothing that has been decided at this point."

However, Housing and Urban Development spokesman Adam Glantz said Wednesday that the numbers are final and will take effect in 2013.

Tentative plans to hire an assistant director of the Saratoga Springs Housing Authority was also briefly discussed.